"This textbook explicitly links understanding of nursing research with evidence-based practice, and focuses on how to read, critique, and utilize research reports. Organized around questions students have when reading reports--how the conclusions were reached, what types of patients the conclusions apply to, how the study was done, and why it was done that way--the text explains the steps of the research process to answer these questions"--Provided by publisher.

Revised edition of: Understanding nursing research / Carol L. Macnee, Susan McCabe. 2nd ed. c2008.

Evidence-based nursing : using research in practice -- The research process : components and language of research reports -- Discussions and conclusions -- Descriptive results -- Inferential results -- Samples -- Ethics : what can go wrong? -- Data collection methods -- Research designs : planning the study -- Background and the research problem -- The research process.